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Henry Louis Mencken

American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic

Nationality: American

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Type: Journalist

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Birth: 1880-1956

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

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The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

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It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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Historian - an unsuccessful novelist.

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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.

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There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

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Life is a dead-end street.

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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

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